202. BRÛLE-PARFUM EN BRONZE PARTIÈLLEMENT DORÉ Marque Hu Wenming, fin de la Dynastie Ming A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER Hu Wenming mark, late Ming Dynasty The cylindrical body with straight sides raised on three butterfly-shaped feet, finely worked in low relief and gilt with various flowers including peonies, lotus, narcissi and lingzhi, all against a stylised floral-diaper ground, a keyfret band finely inlaid with silver wire around the neck and base, the flat circular base incised in seal script with a six-character mark Yunjian Hu Wenming zuo. 10.4cm (4 1/8in) diam. 明晚期 局部鎏金銅筒式三足爐「雲間胡文明製」款 Provenance: Collection of Consul Dr. Curt Friese, Überlingen, Lake Constance, German Consul in Liverpool in 1964, acquired in England in the 1960s, acquired from his estate 來源： 於伯林根康斯坦茲湖1964年德國駐利物浦領事Curt Friese博士珍藏，於1960年代得自英國，現藏家得自其遺產 Compare two similar cylindrical parcel-gilt bronze censers similarly decorated with flower sprays reserved on a diaper ground, the first illustrated in Sidney L. Moss Ltd., Documentary Chinese Works of Art: In Scholars' Taste, London, 1983, pp.224-5, no.157, a second example, illustrated in Sydney L. Moss, The Literati Mode, London, 1986, p.290, no.144, dated to the Wanli period. See also a nearly identical bronze censer from the collection of Hugh Moss, sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 236.